Daryl Tynon

Daryl Tynon was a human hunter who was turned into a wendigo.

History

In the winter of 1989, Daryl went out hunting around March during an early thaw. However, by the time he arrived in the woods a freak blizzard came out of nowhere. Daryl became lost in the blizzard for days until he found himself being stalked by a wendigo. On the third day, the snow stopped and Daryl attempted to flee from the wendigo. But within half an hour, he was half-dead and the wendigo killed him before passing on the wendigo's curse into his soul, so the previous owner of the wendigo's body could rest in peace.

Daryl retained his memories and tried to find his family by stalking his family's summer house in Anonta, Ontario. By 1990, the B.P.R.D. was informed of Daryl's sightings in which Hellboy and Abe Sapien confronted him. Daryl peacefully surrendered to the agents and explained his predicament to them. Daryl was distraught to learn that his family believed him to be dead and had moved, and was shocked when he learned that he would eventually lose his humanity, and that the only way to set his soul free was to kill someone else and pass the wendigo's curse on to that person. Unwilling to consider killing another human being, Daryl pleaded to Hellboy to kill him, but Hellboy regretfully told him that killing him would not break the curse. Instead Daryl was locked up, but not before Hellboy gave Daryl a photo of him with his family for comfort.

Killing Ground

More than a decade later, Daryl was moved to the B.P.R.D's headquarters in Colorado. By this time Daryl had seemingly lost all traces of his humanity and regressed to his wendigo nature. Daryl was broken free by Benjamin Daimio, who fell to the Jaguar Spirit, and was initially believed by the B.P.R.D. to be responsible for the deaths of the B.P.R.D. staff until his innocence was clarified.

Despite his bestial habits and the loss of his ability to speak, Daryl was revealed to still retain traces of his original human identity and avoid attacking human beings. He traveled with Daimio, who became a fugitive on the run, and made their way to the Canadian wilderness.

The Long Death

When Daimio couldn't control the Jaguar Spirit, Daryl was forced to fight Daimio when the latter wanted to die at the hands of the wendigo. Daryl and Daimio fiercely fought throughout the night with the former emerging victorious.